On 10/11/06, Eric H Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stan, Just from my point of view a VPN will link ALL of your ports to the connected network so it will be just like being at your home network. Using SSH/PuTTY will only do a select number of ports and you have to setup more (IMHO).
That's not entirely true. Most current versions of SSH will act as a SOCKS proxy. You can set your browser (or any other program that will use a SOCKS proxy) to the proxy port on localhost and ssh will tunnel it to the other side of the connection and output it from there. This can is an excellent way of tunneling through a firewall. Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
